Method of marking shredded wheat biscuit



March 22 19270 1,621,863

I G. M. ANDERSON METHOD OF MARKING SHREDDED WHEAT BiSCUIT Original Filed May 1'7. 1918 fill/imam Patented Mar. 22,1927.

UNITED STATES'l P ATENT OFFICE.

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' Application filed ke 1'1, 1 9 18, Serial Ro.'235,144.- Renewed a ust s, 1926.

I c Figure 1 1s a diagrammat c view of a' means for carrying out the invention.

Figure3 is a diagrammatic sectional view of a shredding machine, showing a modified means for carrying out the invention.

The invention has relation to a method of superficially marking shredded wheat biscuit, with the idea of distinguishing the' product, or to denote origin of the-b1scu1t,-'

and it consists in the'novel construction and combinations of parts, asset-forth in the appended claim;

In the accompanying drawings, illustrat-.

ing-a preferred means for carrying out the mvention. the numeral 2- des1gnates a gang of shredding machines, laying down bands 3 of cereal material upon a movingcarr'ien or belt 4. the band 5, made up, of the several superposed layers. being of the thiclmessofthe biscuit, andSuitably.difii'dedfor'cuttransverselyinto biscuit formall'as disclosed in the prior art. for instance in the patents to. H. D. Perky. 681,6 56, dated August 27,"

I 1901. for continuous cutting machine, and

- F. Rcgnier, No, 1.027,?62, dated May 28, 1912. for grain shredding machine. I

. At one end ofthe gang of shreddingmachines shredding machine 6 is provided, shown as ofsmaller size. than the machines 2. and the rollers 7 of which are ofthe usual character.

Thenarrow band laid down from the machine 6 upon the top of the composite band 5 for the biscuit proper, is designed tobeo'f the thickness 0.

one shred only, -'and will not materially for;

' appreciablyincrease the thickness of the bisis suitably colored, for instance chocolate cuit, which can be packed as usual, with no.

appreciable increase in weight.

This narrow band 9 of shreddedmateria others of which I claim:

of shredded material, 9,-

or annatto, mixed with the grain fed to the hopper"of the shredding machine 6, and will re 2 is aperspegtive: view of the product.

be easily recognized, contrasting with the.

I color of the top of the biscuit, and the edibility of thebiscuit being in no wayimpalred in providing a'biscuit the top layer of which I is of the usual dimensions. but particolored. having one transverse portion, as the central portion thereof. suitablv colored before he i ing laid down-as stated. and the balance. or i the transverse side portions, of natural-color, 4

the advantage being that a shredding machine having rolls of full. size may be-employed, and further in that the resulting product will-be of the customary form, having no unusual protuberances or projections upon its top surface. I

A means for carrying out this modification involves-the use at oneend of the gang of shredding machines of a shredding machine 10. the hopper 11 of which is divided by. suitable partitions 12 into two or more chambers 13, into one of which grain suitably colored is fed. and into the other or;

grain of natural color is fed.

. A method of making and simultaneously distinctively marking shredded cereal, bis-' cuit. conslstin'g in-laying down superposed bands of shredded cereal to .form'a composite band of the proper thickness, treating cereal ina'terial with a coloring agent and laying.

down from the same a distinctively colored top' band upon said composite band and finally dividing thecompos-ite' band and said top band transversely to form biscuit.

'Intestimony whereof I aflix my signature. v

,. GEORGE M. Annnnsou. 

